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Abraham Ortelius's map of the world from 1570.
Front cover of the Rand McNally Dollar Atlas of the World, 1918.
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Gerardus Mercator
Gerardus Mercator
Flemish cartographer
Ogilby, engraving by William Camden Edwards, 1820, after a drawing by J. Thurston
John Ogilby
British printer
Aaron Arrowsmith, engraving by T.A. Dean after a portrait by H.W. Pickersgill
Aaron Arrowsmith
British geographer and cartographer
Abraham Ortelius's map of the world from 1570.
Abraham Ortelius
Flemish cartographer
Bartholomew, John George
John George Bartholomew
Scottish cartographer and publisher